X, formerly known as Twitter, has reinstated a previously ousted rule surrounding the “misgendering” or “deadnaming” of transgender people. The rule, removed in April 2023, appears to have been quietly reinstated in January 2024, drawing widespread criticism when it was discovered this week.
Apparently X might’ve reinstated their “misgendering” rule so I gotta test it out…
Richard Levine is male. He is a man.
Dylan Mulvaney is male. He is a man.
Ellen Page is female. She is a woman.If I get suspended you can find me at @libsoftiktok 🙌🏻
— Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) March 1, 2024
Ars Technica reported that X’s revised policy included a section titled “Use of Prior Names and Pronouns.” It states X’s commitment to “reduce the visibility of posts that purposefully use different pronouns to address someone other than what that person uses for themselves, or that use a previous name that someone no longer goes by as part of their transition.”
The news was seized upon by Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik, who drew a response from Elon Musk himself, who attempted to explain: “This is just about repeated, targeted harassment of a particular person.”
Raichik responded in kind, “Using the correct sex based pronouns for someone is “harassment”? We’re being forced to lie? What about harassment in general? There are accounts who repeatedly target and harass specific individuals in an obsessive way. What constitutes “repeated” and “targeted” and why do only one group of people get this special treatment?”
In all seriousness @elonmusk can you please clarify this? Why the change? pic.twitter.com/RMvaRA18lt
— Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) March 1, 2024
On a day-to-day basis, X is run by globalist Linda Yaccarino, who has close ties to corporate America as well as the World Economic Forum. Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform mocked the reinstatement of the trans rule, posting a meme of Musk with the insinuation that he does not care about free speech as much as he claims.